Snape contiued (was Re: XPOST: Lupin is Ever So Evil Part One -- The Prank )

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Magda:
> However, another reason why Snape could still be walking around is
> that Voldemort - while being an inadequate Evil Overlord in many 
ways
> - does know something about keeping his powder dry until he's ready
> to use it.  Killing Snape might make for an entertaining evening 
when
> there's nothing good on the telly but if one of Voldemort's aims is
> to take over Hogwarts and use it as his HQ (and since we hear in
> every book how impregnable Hogwarts is I assume that's the case) 
then
> having someone on the inside who can be leaned on later for help in
> exchange for being allowed to live isn't such a bad thing.  ("Lord
> Voldemort does not forget those who serve him, worm.")

Eloise:
Ah. Yes. Very good.
In fact, this works still or even better (I think) if Snape *is* 
working as a double agent. Voldemort might not trust him (and perhaps 
Lucius' role is to keep an eye on him), but he still has him in place 
within Hogwarts, able to spy on Dumbldeore, just as he 
(hypothetically ) suggested to Voldemort he would do as cover for his 
defection.

Actually, does that theory dispose of the whole "why isn't he dead?" 
question? (Not the "who knows he was a DE" question, just the reason 
Voldemort hasn't come after him?)

Neri, after comprehensively out-arguing me said,

> I find it interesting that Snape is *never* said to be absent from
> Hogwarts, except once or twice giving a report in GP. He never 
misses
> a class. It's never told that he's away. Even during his end-of-GoF
> "mission", I couldn't find a single suggestion that he was actually
> absent from Hogwarts. One wonders when does he do all his chumming 
up
> with Lucius and the other DEs?   

Eloise:
Well, we do know that Dumbledore is in possession of a Time Turner. 
Or at least he was.

Neri:
> But perhaps the main reason I'm suspicious about this possibility is
> that Harry was the first to suspect it. Already at the end of GoF,
> when Harry sees Snape at the teachers' table, he asks himself "was
> that [spying against Voldemort] the job he had taken up again? Had 
he
> made contact with the Death Eaters, perhaps? Pretended that he had
> never really gone to Dumbledore?" We all know what usually happens 
to
> Harry's first impressions. 


Drat.
~Eloise